Take Me Aloft: A Passionate Poem to the Moon, Desire, and Cosmic Transience

by Rodrigo Palacios

Take Me Aloft

Raise me.
Uplift me,
O luna, lunera.

Take me in your arms,
away, far away—
wrap me gently
in a swath of scarlet tulle,
O luna escarlata,

 O moon of bare silvery breasts

In the warmth of your beams,
I want to be in you,
body and soul.

My lips ache
for your moonlight kisses.

tongue that light into me.

whizzing through the firmament,
you and I
take our place
in the midday sun
for all to see,
O luna of the sun.

Luna, lunera,
cascabelera,
moon of dusk—
an injected dusk.

I want your blood
to give me life.
ram  me with your light,

luna escarlata,
cascabelera.

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